Human Rights First: Hate crimes, anti-Semitism on rise in Europe

Laws protecting Jewish rights were created in order to defend innocent, hard working Jews from ignoramus like yourself Ted. Don't understand where you get all that hate and resentment but certainly, you cannot possible blame eveything on the Jews. Why don't you dig deeper into you conscience -maybe you'll discover that you papa used to abuse you?

You are right but you forgot to mention Muslims killing Hindus and Sikhs in India as well as Muslims killing other Muslims, especially in the Middle East.

Dear AA, You make a number of erroneous statements. One of these is that Hezbollah continues to fight even after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, after 18 years of occupation. You didn?t mention that latter point, did you? The IDF has withdrawn but the IAF continues to violate Lebanese airspace on an almost daily basis, and of course launched a bombing war against Lebanon last year killing over a thousand non-combatants. You didn?t mention that either, did you? And of course, there are the numerous assassination attempts by special forces which launch raids deep into Lebanon to effect the strikes. As long as Israel maintains a desire to strike into Lebanon then there is a need to maintain a military posture to defend against it. It appears to me that Hezbollah has done a remarkable job in deterring Israeli aggression. Somebody needs to. Regards.

Dear AA, You say, quote, A terrorist organization is DEFINED as one which targets civilian population for the purpose of achieving political goals, regardless of what those goals might be. Unquote. I couldn?t agree more. You are absolutely spot on. And the biggest terrorist groups are of course nation states. They target civilian populations to achieve political goals. And they have the means to kill hundreds of thousands of them, or more. The use of terror for political ends is precisely what is happening in the West Bank. The IDF shoots dead hundreds of non-combatants each year to terrorise them into leaving. This is informal policy, in contrast to its use of targeted killings. Israel uses these put an end to all resistance. No collection of evidence, no trial, no prison sentence, simply a bullet to the head immediately on arrest. Israel conducts about 5-60 of these each year, all aimed at the Palestinian leadership. These are the actions of the Gestapo. Hagganah and the Irgun learnt their lessons well. Regards.

Dear Peter, Thank you for your reply. I think there are two issues here which you overlook. The first of these is that discrimination is only effective in the hands of the powerful. It is Israel that is discriminating against the Palestinians, not the other way around. To condemn a man for his rhetoric, as you tear down his home, steal his land, and then shoot his women and children, is despicable. Anyone who thinks these are right actions puts ethnicity above all other considerations. Is that democratic? No. The second of these issues is one of cause and effect. Israel?s Occupation gave birth to both Hezbollah and Hamas. It is not the other way around. To justify the Occupation on the grounds of the resistance to it is simply disingenuous. It?s like the Nazis justifying their continued occupation of France because the Marquis are shooting back. If you truly wish to lower the rhetoric coming from Hezbollah and Hamas then take away the cause, withdraw. But that is not on the agenda is it? The fruits of Occupation are far too sweet for that. Instead Israel carries out targeted executions on just about any form of Palestinian leadership. Why? To remove the resistance to the takeover of all the lands of Judea and Samaria. So Peter, which is the greater evil, Israel?s Occupation or Palestinian rhetoric? Regards.

My synagogue in Richmond, British Columbia was also completely vandalized and desecrated last month. It was horrifying. As well as two years in a row, the Hillel House at the University of British Columbia has had rocks thrown through its windows on Krystalnacht. Anti-semitism is alive and thriving.

#22 things are deceiving. Yes life is pleasant in Europe but things are changing. Our synagogue was attacked in Geneva a few weeks ago and then you suddenly wake up.

Europe might have been greedy etc. But the Arabs, Africans,Pakistanis,Jewsetc,still keep on invading us when it is apparent that we do not want them

Dear Connie, I will pick only one point from your prophetic-styled ready-made pack of flattest low-brow generalisations: what in your opinion the Europeans are going to regret and to lose when "letting among their midst the islamo/fascists", if the common essential denominator is rabid hatred of Jews? And please please Connie, make your administration and nationals lift once again a finger and save us, Europeans from ourselves. Bush's universal southern-baptist recipe for saving the world is something we desperately need. I mean Connie, did you really take so seriously the movie "Armageddon" with Bruce Willis saving the world? It was not intended. The movie-makers simply intended to reap highest profits from the lowest and most dominant mythes infesting the potential movie-goers.

US and Britain invading Iraq is one exception, Israel occupation is another. Somalia is almost exclusively "muslims" against each other. Reality is that any excuse for a good killing spree is readily accepted, regardless of race or creed; I guess that's a sort of equality. Unfortunately though, these stoushes then result in uninvolved soft targets - civilians in other countries - becoming victims too. so, what's the answer, Mr Figtree?

A terrorist organization is DEFINED as one which targets civilian population for the purpose of achieving political goals, regardless of what those goals might be. For example, an organization which would kill civilians to protest animal rights abuse, slavery, anti-Semitism and so on, is still a terror organization. Next, that Hamas and Hezbollah have arisen after this or that has nothing to do with their being liberation organizations either, even if they were adopting Gandhi's methods: Hezbollah functions and prospers inside a sovereign country, against its government's policies, and fighting Israel even after Israel's complete withdrawal. Its ultimate goal is a non-democratic Islamic state replacing Lebanon. Similarly Hamas is involved right now in more gun battle with other Palestinian factions (mainly Fatah) than with Israel, in order to finalize its control over the Palestinian authority, its ultimate goal being an Islamic state spreading from the Jordan river to the Mediterranea

You're making quite a leap to suggest I want no "Pals" in the West Bank, OR to suggest that there is a correlation between security, land, and water, "Pals" and peace. Right now there is none. Here's what I want. I want the Palestinians to realize their dream of a state but I want Jews and Christians to be able to live there in peace and as equals. I want Israel to have secure borders, not the "Auschwitz Line" as represented by the Green Line. I think Gaza should be considerably enlarged and linked by road or train to the West Bank. There should be economic confederation between Palestinian, Egyptian, Israeli, Syrian, Jordanian and Lebanese states, and then further links can be established to produce prosperity and stability throughtout the area. Arab states should offer citizenship to people who have been born there and the "camps" should be torn down. People shouldn't live in ghettos. Of course this means - no more violence. That's what I want. Surprised?

You are claiming Jews use old wounds to justify racist actions against the Palestinians, and I find that a false assumption. This is primarily due to the fact that there has been violence directed against the Jews in the region of Israel since before 1920 (in modern times). It's disingenuous to claim Israel is being racist to Palestinians and ignore the violence against the Jews or the Israeli state. Finally, your claim that Israel went out and put settlers everywhere instead of using the land as a bargaining chip is false. I suggest you study the Khartoum resolutions.

Not Israelis in a war but ALL Jews it is anti semitic.Do you accept killing ALL in any group? Hamas has that as part of its charter along with the crude "pigs and monkeys reference" Hezballah's Nasrallah said he wants ALL Jews to go to Israel so they can ALL be killed. Thats antisemitic. I wonder if the "conscience" of the world would ignore this from any other group.

When the English learn how to behave and take responsibility for the ills they have caused throughout the world maybe your post will have some valildity.The British are snobbish,arrogant,bigoted and many other things I will not mention. Even that poor excuse for a man Harry does not have the sense he was born with and dresses up in a Nazi uniform. Forget that it insults Jews but what about the citizens of Britian who fought the Nazi's and lost their lives...by the way Jean Louis what a strange name for an englishman.

UH.... NO Mark. Europe is getting ready to surrender AGAIN.WHY???? you have NO SPINE. LAST war it was Hitler. THSI war worldwide Islmofacism. Your country is again ready to surrender-and AGAIN, the U.S. will have to bail you out hope you're happy in "Europeastan". Start learning Sharia law.

EVERY conflict going on in the WORLD is MUSLIMS attacking CHRISTIANS name ANY conflict going on around the globe. If not attacking Christians attacking JEWS. SOMEHOW the Euros are blind to this FACT as they were blind to Hitler...until it was too late. The U.s., Isreal, and England (to a lesser extent more and more) are the ONLY western nations FIGHTING the obvious Islamic worldwide OFFENSIVE. TO NOT see this , is to be blind or an IDIOT.

Peter, you are raving. What exactly was your point here? Was there one? Or perhaps you are just stating, yet again, how much you support zionism and all that it stands for. We all know that. Please do add something to the dialogue here.

Yet another great post, David. You write what I feel. I am fast becoming your fan.

You missing the point. Jerusalem is a religious center for many religions and they all objected to the parade. Its asensitive issue with all the religions and the mayor had to consider it carefully. AS to Jews living in Geramany, I know I could never do it. I look at every older German and ask " was he the one who kill ed my parenta execution style in the forest of Belarus, together with hundreds of fmily and neighbours. Be grateful you dont live with such nightmares.

Carl, read Londostan, a recent book by British journo, maybe you will understand better.

Dear Peter, Thank you for your reply to my post. I didn?t understand your main point. I suspect what you are driving is that criticism of Israel implies anti-Semitism on the part of those who criticize. I would not want to underestimate the forces of anti-Semitism, for I know it exists and it is deeply repugnant. But is its source significantly different from other forms of racial prejudice generally? Does our tendency to want to stick with our own kind provide an instinctual basis for the distrust of others, which can mutate into offensive forms of prejudice? I don?t know. And I am sure there are those who would take the opportunity to switch to full-bloodied anti-Semitism if the moment was right. What I am concerned about is that the miss-use of the label anti-Semite will lose its inhibiting effect on genuinely anti-Semitic behaviour. That would be a disservice to the forces bringing the races and ethnic groups together. So could I ask you Peter to be more discerning in your use of the label? Regards

I am really surprised, that a person of your erudition believes Israels"behaviour" will make a difference to antisemitism. Ita an ingrained malady of the dark masses, (read FEAR by Jan T. Gross) and you will maybe grasp rthe magnitude of it. They dont give a hoot about Arabs, but any excuse will do. In West Europe its mostly perpetrated by muslims, hence the Lebanon war iissue.

which has carried on the rejection from 1967 when Israel was rejected by the 3 Nos of the Arab league. No Peace No recognition and No negotiations with Israel. The occupation could have ended right there. It is not the West bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem that is at issue both,Hamas and Fateh, have as their agenda the elimination of Israel. Thats what makes this occupation different from all others.This is about the existential threat clearly charted by the Palestinians. No other occupying power is threatened with destruction. Please,helpless Palestinians.Where was the fence and roadblocks before the intifada and the massive increase in suicide bombers,drive by shootings and road side bombs etc.? Now lets cut to the chase. As a "liberation" organisation does calls for killing ALL Jews and Islamisation of the world become legitimate or should so called humanitarians be condemning it?

Dear Cipora, Thank you for taking the time to reply. I accept most of your descriptions of both Hamas and Hezbollah. However, when a people are put under the existential pressure the Palestinians have endured for 40 years, then the ideology required to free them will become more and more fundamentalist the longer it takes to gain that freedom. If you don?t like it, then demand like me that they are let free from their captivity. A lot of the anger that underpins their manifesto will dissipate on the moment of a release. That is not to say there will be no more violence, there will. The Palestinians have been too traumatized by their captivity under the Israelis for there to be a smooth seamless transition to independence. Regards

Dear Peter, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my posts. I have no quibble with your definition of slavery, except to say it is not wide enough. The opposite of slavery is freedom. If someone is not free, that is, they are held captive, against their will, then that is also a form of slavery. Slaves do not have freedom of movement, nor the freedom of choice. Their lives and working conditions are decided by the mercy of their overseers. A simple perusal of the Palestinians? living and work conditions is all that is needed to assess very rapidly that they are held captive. They are denied access to 50% of the physical space of the West Bank, their own land, and their movements are controlled everywhere by a massive system of checkpoints and road blocks. All of their actions are overseen by the Israelis who can beat, harass, arrest and jail without charge, and even kill them, with absolutely impunity. The Palestinians have few if any legal safe guards against the inhumanity of their overseers. That is slavery. No simplistic definition from a dictionary is going to hide that. A far more authoritative source is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the two international covenants that spring from it. They outline in an extensive manner the terms that constitute the loss of freedom. Briefly, anyone who is denied the right of self-determination is held captive, see ICCPR Article One. Regards

I note with cryptic amusement that you now qualify yourself to be a member of both spat-upon leper colonies of the world; ie, so-called Israel and the USofA. Make up your mind, oh double-passport holder: you can only take victimization so far.

"There was a sharp spike in anti-Jewish incidents during the Lebanon war, in both France and England." - Tosefta "Europe never stopped being antisemitic, something you would not know" - Cipora I wonder where you see in my post any reference to there being a state of anti-Semitism in EWurope or not. A spike indicates a sharp increase, not necessarily from zero level but from any level. I suggest you take my advice and sue your graduate school for destroying your mind. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" - Rosen, Kranz, Gilden, and Stern

I suspect it never decreased - it was just better hidden for awhile, untill those who witnessedcd the holocost first hand died out. Now its safer for the deniers to reamerge.

"YOU MISSED THE POINT WHY ARE "GAY PARADES" NECESSARY??" Because to show you that looking the other way won't make homosexuality go away. And besides, there's a thingy called "freedom of opinion", and it's not subject to YOUR adjudgement about what is necessary, or not.

"Israelis wanting to emigrate to Europe should know that they could equally well choose to settle down in Ramallah instead." But at least you stay in the German trenches, though almost overwhelmed by the Muslim hordes, to admonish your Jewish brethren not to move to the country where death and destruction lie ahead. You are so brave (sob), I shall recommend you for the Iron Cross.

Cipora, let me assure you that your summing up Europeans as anti-Semites and summing up the anti-Semites as Europeans is only possible for you because you suffer from the thing you accuse Europeans and anti-Semites of. Namely, hating first any reasoning later. Defining macro groups under monolith blanket adjectives first and then squeezing individuals into this bivalent world-view. I will also assure you that a European person of your sex, social position and education is very very unlikely to relate to "the Jews" with such intellectual dishonesty as you, an American, relate to "the Europeans". I mean I say "dishonesty" since I totally rule out you are an idiot.

Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy. Both organizations stand for radical theocratic regimes, based on sharia law. It, too, wants to impose sharia law. Both organizations have called for the elimination of Israel. Neither organization believes in the universal declaration of human rights. If you like them, good for you.

to Zebulonguy and a few others on here. They seem to be deaf, blind and stupid. Good post.

What a laugh. A lot of Jews here posting are from every part of the world including Africa, a black continent, and Canada etc and VERY few from Israel. If things are so great in Israel why haven't all of you gone there to live? The fact that you have not has answered the question. You don't like South Africa, then get stepping. I thought most of the parasites were thrown out when apartheid ended, apparently there are still some attached to their hosts while still complaining. What a bunch.

Europe never stopped being antisemitic, something you would not know sitting in your ivory tower in wonderful America. Obviously, as I said in my earlier post, under situation of crisis, such as terror attacks, this feeling will intensify. Nevertheless, the Europeans, including all classes of people, never need any excuse to hate Jews. I have read that Baron Rothschild, when he overhears antisemitic remarks in restaurants, he silently hands out his calling card.

they do not look at gays with a liberal eye.they may cut off your whatsits.

"If you are a poor shiite Lebanese or WB-Pal and only those organisations will help your sick and dying doughter, what would you do?" I would say: Finally some money stollen from Us are returned to us in other form than missiles.

Europe has not been this dangerous for Jews since 1945. Period. You must learn to heed the writing on the walls of those Western European subway cars you ride in...It`s in Arabic, isn`t it? Or maybe it still says "Assine Sharon" from a couple years ago. Or maybe just a swastika some dumb kid drew in Biro, and no one disagrees with enough to bother erasing. At this point, with all the evidence piling up, it seems truly crazy & dangerously stupid to remain in those Arab-pandering, historically anti-Semitic, states of Briatain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland and others. Start organizing your affairs now, and please make your way to safety in Israel or the U.S. Now is not the time to make excuses. Look what has happened in Paris and Geneva only recently...Time to safeguard your lives and get out of the Islamic States of Europe! They want a flood of Arab immigrants? Let them have one. But your lives are too precious to gamble with. Am Yisroel Chai!

i work for a giant corporation i receive calls from colleagues in tel aviv which rather than sending e-mails they call me 8:30 AM to speed their request ...i always hang up do you know why ...arrogance and selfishness and feeling if superiority which makes the israeli society so hated in the world ..i will continue ignoring their phone calls until they learn to join the line and send an e-mail ...sorry you are not so special

You seem to think Europe is the power in the world. The US is Jonathan. We couldn't even solve the former Yugoslavia wars, the US had to do it, remember? What on earth had the genocide in Rwanda to do with oil for Europe? And Darfur is our doing? And financing Arafat has been done with the approval of the US and Israel while somebody did have to keep the Pals from starving (looks so bad, doesn 't it). Man, you are as much obsessed by Europe as hardstone leftist anti-American lunatics in Europe are by America.

Many right wing Jews seem to include all the people of the world in one of two catagories. They either support Zionism or they are anti-semites. Assuming that this is the scale used in this article, there is no surprise at the results. Anti-semites should outnumber Zionists by about 1000 to 1.

"Zionism and Judaism are like chalk and cheese" Even if we assume, as you put it, that "Zionism is merely a secular nationalist political movement, whereas Judaism is a religion", the points of intersection between the two is in fact one of the most basic tenets of Judaism, i.e. the fulfilment of the return of the Jewish people to Zion. In fact, Zionism is a subset of Judaism, and cannot exist outside of it. You failed to understand what Jews are all about, but feel it is your prerogrative to lecture us about our own culture. There is a word for this: ARROGANCE

Hamas as well as Hezbollah, mr. zebulonguy, are grass-root organisations, they emerged from within the population. Unlike the corrupt PLO/Fatah of Yasser Arafat and the Lebanese administrations, they have provided medical care, education, housing, benefits, food for millions of the truly poor and deprived Arabs in WB, Gaza and Lebanon for a long time now. If you are a poor shiite Lebanese or WB-Pal and only those organisations will help your sick and dying doughter, what would you do? What does it say about us in the West that we refuse to talk to these people and instead support the corrupt people of PLO/Fatah and lebanese government. The US wanted democracy and they got it. What is the problem? And don't say Hamas is terrorist because so is the PLO/Fatah and Olmert/Livni/US do talk with and support Abbas, not?

"He was reffering to the Arab population in pre 1967 boundries. Ignorance of people such as yourself has lead too Anti semitism" So was I. I wa referring to Arab Israeli's. And sure, my ignorance leads to anti-Semitism. I wonder if you ever could live in a world without anti-Semitism. Would you still have a purpose?

I am gratefull that there are Jews in my town who despite the holocaust still loves it and feel they belong here and stay here. I admire the fact that they support Israel despite the loathing they receive sometimes from people like yourself. It's because people like this that I became interested in Judaism, history, beliefs, ethics and values.

Related Topics See also Commerce Power; Fugitive Slaves. slav·er·y (slā'və-rē, slāv'rē) n., pl. -ies. The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household. The practice of owning slaves. A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force. The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence. A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery. A lot more like the Arabs do to the Sudanese blacks which the "humanitarians" so pointedly ignore. Not to mention the camel jockeys in the Gulf states just recently highlited in the media

conveniently ignore it. Not to mention their stated desire to impose Islam Worldwide. Are we to aasume by your silence?

We must not go so much back in history to see the devastating European role in Africa or the ME. The recent genocides in Biafra and Rwanda were only possible through the treacherous role of Europe. Millions had to die because they had no oil for Europe, like people in Darfur are dying today. How many African children have died because Europe is selling its heavily subsidized products in Africa, destroying the African farming? In the ME, Europe wanted to give Saddam Hussein nuclear weapons (he got WMD from Europe) and now the EU has made the bomb of the mullahs a possibility. Together with financing Arafat and terror, the role of Europe could not have been more shameful and disgusting.

AN UNPROVEN FAIRY STORY SHARIF . RUSSIAN JEWS ARE OF SEMITIC ORIGIN

"Beware the Winds of War are starting to blow....Europe has never learned their lesson and this time I hope the U.S. does not lift a finger to help these impotent fools who continually make the same mistakes over and over again. This time their biggest mistake is letting the islamo/fascists into their midst...this they will regret forever." Actually Connie, what America is doing in Iraq and generally in the ME is a classic European mistake. It seems the US is now falling in the Empire trap Europe has fallen into long time ago. BTW: Europe is known for it's seksual freedoms, the US for it's seks-scared population. Europe is build on freedom today, the US on fear.

The idiot is only baiting you. He simply hates us JEWS out of IGNORANT jealousy. Ignore the baiters, ALL of them & that Indonesian one's an absolute MasterBaiter. Not alone just one of many spread far & wide. From sussex to NYC & to the desolate wastelands of Australia. When they realise they are NOT getting the attention they so DESPERATELY crave they'll wither & dissappear. Save your comments for those endowed with at least HALF a brain. It's unfair to take advantage & mock the afflicted & the imbecilic halfwits.

Its lucky its not happening in Switzerland.If the Mountains come to Muhammad then Dino will have nowhere to live.

WIBISM AS USUAL YOUR POSTS ARE TOMMY ROT !! ISRAEL IS A DEMOCRACY UNDER SEIGE FOR 60 YEARS THIS PRECLUDES THE USUAL NICETIES JUST AS THE USA BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES UNDER THE THREAT OF TERRORISM HAVE CURBED THE USUAL RIGHTS GIVEN TO SUSPECT INDIVIDUALS AND INDEED INCONVENEIENCED ORDIBNARY CITIZENS IN DOING SO !!

They want to liberate themself from the fourty years of tyranny and obliteration, sleevery, criminal activities. The Palestinian has voted for them because They are truly represent the soul of liberation movement. Palestinians see in Hamas the honest courage & future who stand up and express how they feel about their conditions, suffering, and pain. Hamas is responding no different to the slave revolts throughout history. And the Israelis are behaving just as despicably as slave owners have done historically too. Hopefully these tiny few facts could answer your arrogant question.

NICK, IF WE TAKE THE MUSLIM WORLD OF WHICH YOU ARE SO FOND WE DISCOVER HETEROSEXUALS , HOMOSEXUALS TRANSVESTITES AND ALL DEVIANTS ARE PERSECUTED AND OFTEN MURDERED .HUMAN RIGHTS BEING UNAVAILABLE IN THAT SOCIETY EVEN SIMPLY THE FEMALE SEX IS PERSECUTED AND DENIED RIGHTS ! YOUR ABILITY TO THINK LATERALLY IS OBVIOUSLY MISSING IN EVERY POST . IN THE SOCIETIES IN WHICH THER ARE GAY RIGHTS MARCHES THERE IS GENERALLY NO NEED TO MARCH AT ALL AS THE RIGHTS ARE ALREADY TAKEN FOR GRANTED

As the London Times just reported, Muhammad is now second only to Jack as the most popular name for baby boys in Britain and is likely to rise to No 1 by next year. This shows more than anything else what is going on in good old Europe. Israelis wanting to emigrate to Europe should know that they could equally well choose to settle down in Ramallah instead.

You can't see how a 90% majority can be maintained for long? I don't think it's your maths that's at fault is it, so that'd leave the problem of facts getting in the way of your small little ideas. Shit, once mor, what am I saying? When you're right in the thick of it, you just can't get perspective: take a step back & see what's really going on. You let stupid things like census data & your own eyes cloud your judgement. If only I could live in the US or Australia, then I'd really understand what’s going on in the UK; you know, the profound grasp of a country the like of which only natives of Brooklyn can get of Israel. What is it that stops you coming out & just stating what you actually think? You don’t like Muslims. Just say it and be done. Those of us who have Muslims & half a dozen other religions literally as our neighbours, can then shake our heads in disgust & carry on living life: the sort of life where you don’t obsess about who might be living in someone else’s country, let alone your own. Carl.

message of 6 million Jews murdered while most of the world looked on askance, is still not absorbed by the diaspora Jews. I suppose Kahana was right and as usual persecuted by his own kind.

There was a sharp spike in anti-Jewish incidents during the Lebanon war, in both France and England. This can explain a good deal of the story. Add to this a general rise in animosity towards strangers (perhaps due to liberalization in movements of people compared to Soviet days, and many immigrants in Western Europe) and you get additional attacks against Jews by local faschists/nationalists. Conclusion: Ask Israel to behave,and move on the peace front. And don't worry too much about the rest; it will pass.

Old habits die hard and the Europeans,as we have seen throughout history,have a hard time breaking away from the age old hatred of anti semitism. After violent flare ups as witnessed by the pograms and the Holocaust the flames of hatred die down but are never extinguished. They just wait for the right time to flare up once again and then the horror begins. Are we getting ready to see another flare up of great proportions,to maybe equal or outdo the Holocaust,quite possibly. With the large amount of muslims living in Europe and the large amount of die hard Jew and Israel haters everything is possible. Beware the Winds of War are starting to blow....Europe has never learned their lesson and this time I hope the U.S. does not lift a finger to help these impotent fools who continually make the same mistakes over and over again. This time their biggest mistake is letting the islamo/fascists into their midst...this they will regret forever.

Considering Muhammad was Britain's most popular name for last year's newborns I doubt you'll remain the majority for long. As a matter of fact, I can't see how you would make up 90% of U.K. population if that is the truth. I would be willing to bet that the conference will gloss over any mention of antisemitism with the usual drone of how Israel is responsible for the actions of people around the world who target innocent Jews. I am confident they will maintain the Arab-European Dialogue rhetoric, just like good little Dhimmis should.

but indraraya has a point; that is how many people see it here in Europe. I would blame it on such a long ruthless occupation.

Dear Jebulonguy, Thank you for your reply. Calling a group extremist is subjective. To the vast majority of ordinary Palestinians, Hamas is not extremist, it is a stubborn defender of their rights. For them, Hamas represents how they feel after 40 years of tyranny and oppression, stubborn and angry. This is why they voted for them. They wanted someone who had the courage to stand up and express how they feel about their conditions, their suffering, and take the battle to the enemy no matter what the cost. The Palestinians are responding no different to the slave revolts throughout history. And the Israelis are behaving just as despicably as slave owners have done historically too. It is time for Israel to show some humanity. Unfortunately, it appears to have its soul. Regards.

No wonder Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu say Israelis treat Palestinians worse than the white south african colonizers treated Black south africans. All Israelis should be embarrassed at what their democratic state does in their names. http://www.youtube. com:80/watch? v=M_CRzdlA5To

The Muslims are not a problem in France,it is the present perception of them and of Islam which is a problem. Anyway leave that to the French, Franco-Arabic relationship is a love hate relationship and that at the end they cannot do without each other. French Arabs will end up getting assimilated as millions of Polish, Italian, Portuguese, and hundred of thousand Spanish, Afro West Indian, Indian, Vietnamese, Cambodian and chinese have been. It will just take a bit more time for the passion, love, hate to cool down. Curiously the Lebanese are embraced all at once and do not even need to get assimilated as they are per se. funny country.

SG is again confused... Indrajaya is correct in her comments. In the example of France, I am afraid that the decrease in hate crimes (whose victims have always been mainly Arabs and Blacks) is not so much due to effort on the part of the government (that would be too good a news) but to a change of attitude in French behaviour towards its huge Arab minority, many are coming to terms with the fact that if they cannot reject them, they have to accept them as they are French and cannot be kicked out. It is as well as a way for the majority of French to distance themselves from the etreme right's openly racist propaganda and growing influence. The rise of anti semitism in majority is also due the extreme right which hates the Jews more than the Arabs(what is the government doing?)but also due to young French Muslims who easily identify with the Palestinian cause and the antiBush awareness and see in each Jew a face of the Israel/USA parternship they hate and that is sad.

Here in Europe we are not perfect. Generally, though, most of us are pretty fab people. there are a few bad apples. Not everyone who criticizes Isarael is anti-semetic, just as not everyone who campaigned against SA apartheid was "anti-white-Christain" we are not perfect in Europe. Surfing the net It is funny and puzzling to see that so many Americans and Israelis DO consider themselves, their cultures and countries beyond reproach. Just visit the Jerusalem Psuts website and read the comments from American and Israeli posters; read their racism, homophobia and hate directed at Europeans (the British in particualr) We are not perfect in Europe. are you REALLY sure that you are perfect in America and Isreal? Peace to you all, my friends in far-off places.

Dear Paul, Thank you very much for your reply to my post. You ask, quote, IS THERE A HETEROSEXUAL PARADE IN ANY OF THE CAPITALS ? Unquote. Not that I know of, no, but there is no need of one. Heterosexuals have not been persecuted for their sexuality. However, I would be quite happy to join a parade that declared that the hetero-sexual family is central to the well-being of society. How about that? One of the purposes of Gay Pride parades is to test the human rights environment. Not surprisingly, Israel doesn?t permit one. The right to self-determination of others does not figure in its consciousness. I am pleased to see that you note my democratic sympathies. Regards

reading haaretz and jpost from time to time, one starts to wonder how it is possible there are still jews who survive the terrible acts of anti-semitism that happen everywhere in europe on an hourly basis... if israelis really believe what they read, it must be for them like for north koreans who believe the rest of the world is against them... the difference is they have no right to go abroad or to access foreign media... stop reading israeli newspapers, come and spend some money while travelling in europe and you will become less paranoid.

Dear Peter, Thank you for your reply. The recent World Bank highlighted who is pushing who back into the sea. It is the Palestinians who are penned in like animals in less than 50% of the West Bank. If you object to the Palestinian rhetoric, unpleasant and rabid though it is, then call for the end of Israel?s de facto ethnic cleansing. Hamas was spawned by the brutality of the Israel Occupation, a captivity which continues to this day. Not only is Israel not a modern secular democracy, nor are its apologists. Rebellion against tyranny and oppression is the ultimate democratic act. Regards

Russian Jews are not Semites at all. They are of Khazar origin. So, one can call crimes committed against them as Anti-Khazar! Hence, and for example, Lieberman, is not a Semite! As a Human being, and as an Egyptian, I'm against any hate crime made against any person or creator. We are the origin of Semite, and hence, we are against Anti-Semitism too. Comparing us, with whoever, or even people among us, is ignorance. However, I stand with Jews, when it comes to hate crimes!

Hamas is not a liberation orgaisation, The PLO is/was and so is the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine(PFLP). Hamas is an Islamic extremist organisation with Links to the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt and Islamic Jihad I guess you do not know their manifesto. As for Hezbollah they are a Shia Islamic organisation unlike the Hamas who are Sunni Islamic,they(Hezbollah) aim for the complete Destruction of Israel and creating a strict Islamic State in Israels place,While Hamas want a Strict Sunni Islamic state in whatever they consider Palestine,I am sure any Arab can tell you that.

APLENTY!! YOU MISSED THE POINT WHY ARE "GAY PARADES" NECESSARY??

DAVID , YOU DWELL INTO THE UNREALITY OF AN IDEALIST WHO CANNOT SEE THAT MOST THINGS ARE PRACTICALLY RUN. THE QUESTION WHY THINGS HAPPEN AND AS THEY ARE MISSES YOU ENTIRELY. WHEN A COUNTRY HAS SPENT ITS ENTIRE LIFE ON A WAR FOOTING ALL THE DREAMS OF FAIR PLAY YOU FANTASISE ON ARE LOST IN EVERYDAY ACTIVITY. ISRAELS COURTS CAN FIND FOR ANY HELD DECISION THEY FANCY HOWEVER THEY CANNOT ENFORCE THE DECISIONS OVER THE SECCURITY FORCES

He was reffering to the Arab population in pre 1967 boundries. Ignorance of people such as yourself has lead too Anti semitism,so dont you dare talk too us about propoganda,And yes hate crimes happen but are all Jews settlers let alone all Israelis???I know people whos lives were ruined smoking marijauna and lost friends to it,must I now Assault all Dutch people I come across because Holland legalised Marijauna?????????

that those two brothers from France went too Jail for murdering the Arab, And that soldier obviously got sentenced too,just like Ami Popper who shot a group of Arab construction workers with his brothers m16????

IS THERE A HETEROSEXUAL PARADE IN ANY OF THE CAPITALS ? Ever here of Carnival in Rio? That's one seriously sexualized (mostly hetero) parade. Ever see The Rose bowl Parade? I don't think it's in a capital (though maybe, Florida is not my area of interest). But a bunch of celebrated male athletes all pumped up and a bunch of scantily clad female cheerleaders, many with fake boobs. Very celebratory of exhibitionistic hetero-sexual ideals. Do you disagree?

and I have been mugged,stolen from etc by Non white individuals, Must I now go around killing people with the same skin colour as those criminals??? so why do people have to hold Jews responsible because of their belief and ethnicity to what is happening in the mid-east.You dont see me slitting my neighbours daughters throat because she is Muslim???

To say Europe is responsible for today's wars and genocide in Africa is actually racist Jonathan, it is denying that Africans have a mind and a will of themselves and are too stupid to create peacefull societies and overcome the fallout of colonialism. Since you focus so much on Europe's history of racist colonialism, focus on the jewish role in this, will you? In Amsterdam for example, most of those beautifull houses along the canals were build in the 17-th and 18-th century by Jews who became very rich in the slavetrade and owned slaveplantages in Surinam, wich are considered to have been most cruel in the history of slaveship in the world. As is the case with globalisation now, colionialism was very much promoted by Jews. You may call me an anti-Semite for stating this, but it is merely a fact and I do not hold this against Jews today. Times were different then, it is not very productive to see all of the past in the values of today and base your accusations on that.

The Report on Global Anti-Semitism repeatedly calls for passage, both nationally and internationally, of ?hate crime? legislation. These laws, the brainchild of B?nai B?rith/ADL, also have as their ultimate goal making it a ?hate crime? to criticize Jews, matters Jewish, or the state of Israel. The Department of Anti-Semitism, applauded and advised by B?nai B?rith/ADL, is working to create a worldwide ?criticism-free zone? for Jews in the ?New World Order? that is coming. This report ignores whether criticisms of matters Jewish are true. What must be defended are the sensitivities of the Jewish people! Consequently, relating such unflattering realities as the anti-Christian, anti-Gentile contents of the Talmud and Kabbalah, Jewish origins of bolshevism, Jewish dominance of Hollywood and the media, Jewish control of Congress through AIPAC, Zionist atrocities and abrasiveness in the Middle East is anti-Semitic. It is ?hate.? It does not matter that such facts can be easily and extensively documented, often from impeccable Jewish sources such as the Encyclopedia Judaica.

Try to live looking for the future.It is so sad that you are stucked to the Holocaust so, that your life seem to be rather miserable there ,in the middle of Europe - remembering things which happened over 60 years go.So many others seem to have succeeded to create a rather happy life in spite of their awfull experiences and memories.

"every war can be traced back to Europe" how foolish and ignorant.... please post no more garbage here and read a history book while you are NOT posting

thanks for setting Indraya straight....he's a racist and needs to read a book or two(hundred)

"Am I a fool as you abuse me to be? Probably. But then I don`t act abusively to other posters like you enjoy doing." While you just enjoy coming on these boards with your morally righteous, one track mindset claiming to all that Israel is unnecessarily evil, even though Israel is the one country in the Middle East that will allow you to enjoy the freedom of expression. Has it ever occured to you that maybe Israel is NOT being oppressive? How many more Palestinians must die in infighting before the world (and Brits such as yourself) claim that they are being massacred by one another? (Hint: It only took 23 deaths over 5 days in Jenin for folks like you to label Israel as evil and brutal and all of those other lovely propaganda push buttons.) As we say here in America, "Sweeeeeet."

Michael, stop your stupid propaganda. We know Israeli society is full of racism towards Arabs on most fields in society, from access to medical care to education to freedom of travel to jobs. And about the Israeli hatecrimes, I suggest you check out youtube for daily settler hate crimes and roadblocks. On the roadblocks hate crimes are purpetrated by IDF on a daily basis. And how about a prayer for Baruch Goldstein and his mates of Kach?

How about.."Stop trying to attribute modern justifcations to an ancient hatred."

Focus on the everlasting racist character of American society will you? Something about a pot and a cattle. Ooh yes, Hitler murdered some hundred thousands of gay men and women as well, how about their rights in today USA? What, they cannot marry? And these people from this society are criticising Europe, the continent of the free?

The problem is that we are not really sure WHAT is wants to 'liberate'.

Leona darling, #11 With 23 plus or minus Arab countries in this world, and not ONE allows freedom for women, children and government, no freedom for it's citizens and many fall short at even basic human rights. How ironic is it to see the only country allowing freedom for Arab women, children and Arabs in OUR government is our tiny Jewish state of ISRAEL? Please recheck your history my dear. We simply do not have a line of hate crimes. War is tragic, however to spin a report appearing as fact that Israel casually strolls about on bright sunny days planting cluster bombs and land-mines cause we might be a bit bored and endear crimes against humanity... then while we're at it kill a few kids as well..and our favourite past-time is to not report these kinds of crimes? Leona, when in doubt... please scroll back to the top of this message. FACT: 23 Arab Countries. Not 1 is free. 1 Jewish state, ISRAEL, Arabs are FREE. There isn't even room for a joke here.

Obviously, anything Jewish is considered Brutal by Indrajaya. Not his own authoritarian leaders who have fanned the flames of anti-Semitism. Not his own parents who have taught him to love the Palestinians because of their fight against the Jews and Israel. Certainly not his own lack of brainpower that would allow a different chain of thought outside of calling anything Israel does in its 60 years of life which have been constantly under attack by Arab nations and rogue terror organizations as being blatantly brutal. In fact, Indrajaya is the most level headed, honest, sweet, poopy poo on this whole planet. Just ask him.

Try to listen to the views of others instead of bellowing and shouting at them. That's what extremists do. Israel must be called to account just as the High Court is doing by requiring the State to justify closures of a road. Israeli Occupation Forces are not above the law neither is the executive that supports them. That is why normal countries have courts and politicians to ensure people behave acceptably. Israel itself states officially that to criticise Israeli occupation policies and those policies against the Bedouin and non-Jews who try to exist within Israel, is NOT antisemitic. Am I a fool as you abuse me to be? Probably. But then I don't act abusively to other posters like you enjoy doing.

IS THERE A HETEROSEXUAL PARADE IN ANY OF THE CAPITALS ? YOUR SYPANTHIES ALREADY SHOW IN YOUR EARLIER WRITINGS THER IS NO NEED TO EMPHAISIE THEM

in the Torah: First Book of Moses 12:7, 15:18, Second Book of Moses 23:31, Fifth Book of Moses 34:4, 1 Kings 4:21, 2 Chronicles 9:26, Ps 80:12 and then tell us that Zionism is not Judaism.

That calls for ethnic cleansing and destruction of Israel. That calls for killing of all Jews,is virulently antisemitic and calls for worldwide Islamic dominance How low can newspeak go?

The word P**i is deemed to be a derogatory term in the United Kingdom which if used can lead to criminal charges. Congratulations if you lived in the UK you woul be part of the figures for race crime.

After 2000 years of slaughtering Jews culminating with the Holocaust, after creating anti-Semitism which is a purely European invention, neo-Nazis were marching last weekend through the Brandenburg Gate in the very center of Berlin in an illegal demonstration under the very eyes of the police who did not interfere, in contrast to the brutal police behaviour actually seen around the G8 Summit. And at the same time, Europe is helping the mullah regime in Tehran for nearly 20 years to produce the bomb that could create a new Holocaust. But as usual, the Europeans, as former colonial powers responsible for the genocides in Africa as well as for merely all problems in the ME, are rather innocent.

a "Hasbara,Potemkin village or Astroturf group"

states. How many millions have you murdered? How many opressed and occupied? Starved to death? Forced to convert to Islam? So there is a direct correlation is there? Amazingly the left has no problems with you.

SG - I never mentioned 'antizionism'. Your use of the perjorative 'precious' indicates to me you do not like anyone who questions your view of the world. What do you want security, land and water, no Pals in the west bank - or peace?

What should anti-Semitism have to do with the politics of the Israeli Government? Replace at your leisure Israeli with US Government, Islamic terror groups, European Governments and anti-Semitism with hate for Americans, Muslims, Europeans. These "anti" feelings are positions based on an emotional need to hate. An excuse. Psychology with destructive political consequences - no exceptions. There is no rationale whatsoever in basing them on politics of governments, states, countries, political or ethnic groups.

Actually the Independent Jewish Voice is ahome for all religious and secular Jews who are fed up with the British Board of Deputies' claim to represent all Jews in the UK withits aggressive 'Israel can do no wrong' line. There are many religious and secular Jewish groups both in the UK and Israel and in the Staes, who are no longer prepared to accept the official Israeli version of 'the truth' that always excludes the suffering it causes ordinary Palestinian families. That is why IJV was born as you well know if you really are from the UK and you read the Press. And it is also why IJV are villified by the BBD who have instructed the IJV to be treated as vermin and traitors etc and so on, for daring to speak peace.

YOUR HATRED IS SO INTENSE YOU ARE BLINDED TO REALITY!! IF ALL ARE CRITICISED IT IS AFAIR COMMENT !! WHEN YOU ONLY PICK ON ISRAEL TIME AND TIME AGAIN IT IS BLATANT ANTI SEMITISM!! STEP BACK AND TAKE A DEEP BREATH . YOU FOOL NO ONE WE HAVE 1800 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE !!

Joseph of England admonishes me to stop attributing "modern justifications for an ancient hatred". To Joseph and the millions of other who share his perspective, the problem is NOT that people ignore the history of anti-Semitism but that we resent seeing Jews use old wounds to justify racist actions toward the indigenous people of Palestine. European Jews conquered the bulk of Palestine in 1947-48 and then occupied the lands conquered in 1967. If you had stopped there and, let's say, used the lands as a bargaining chip as your leaders pretended at the time, we might be looking at a different situation today. Instead, Israel decided to settle these lands with foreign Jews (many of whom yet unborn in 1967!) over the next 40 years. To protect these settlements, you have ringed the territories with special Jews-only roads and imposed a draconian, repressive regime on the Palestinians to stifle their resistance. Then you are surprized when their Arab brothers and sisters do not like you!

Dear Cipora, One does not have to be a Marxist, a leftie, or an anti-Semite, to think that Hamas and Hizbollah are liberation organisations. They are. The facts support it. It is ludicrous to deny other wise. Hezbollah grew out of the 1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon and Hamas out of the first Intifada. Regards.

You tread on contentious ground with your claim that Zionism and Judaism are one and the same - I'm not sure many would agree with you. Apart form, of course, the extremist hard liners in Israel. Zionism is a secular nationalist political movement (try reading Yablonski) whreas Judaism is a religion. Saying they are the same is like saying nationalism is a religion, which of course it is generally not. What has happened since Herzl's call to action is that zionists have hijacked Judaism and has been producing political rabbis who propagate a mingled message of political religion - the worst kind - see what has happened to Islam. There are many facets of Zionism that clash with the honourable humanitarian and compassionate tenets of Judaism. Zionism for example has no place for non-Jews, whereas the Torah calls for kindness to neighbours and strangers. Not much of that from the settlers in Hebron.

Anti Semitism reminds me mostly of my childhood in England,after the attrocities of the second world war.I knew little of the 6 million jews that died at that time but anti semitism was still rife in the east end of London. Today a negative comment brings out such comments and certainly 2 or 3 for sure.I said as much to Lakshmi myself after she mentioned Jews and money as well as all the things she says about Israel. But Anti Israel comments themselves is not anti semitism.There is a lot Israel does wrong,the same as any other country and its fair game to criticize.That is not anti semitism. Anti Zionism is another thing,its only about National will (the word Zionism has been wrongly used by actually anti semites)But it is anti semitic to talk about Jewish desires for their homeland. So when this report mentions Anti semitism on rise its problably mixing all three together and in doing so it waters down the danger itself.

One statistic from the Human Rights First report that bears a moment?s reflection is one on homophobia. According to the report, quote, hatred of gays came to the fore [in Europe] in 2006, among other instances, at Gay Pride parades in Warsaw, Moscow, Bucharest, Riga and Tallinn. Unquote. At least the capitals of Poland, Russia, Romania, Latvia and Estonia, none of which is noted for the depth of their democratic traditions, had a gay parade. What is one to make then of the banning of the Gay Parade in Jerusalem?

Any student in statistics will tell you that a positive correlation does not mean that one is the cause of the other.

... white people are racist, in general. It is part of their "complex de superiosite'"

The IJV is on the whole a group of secular Jews who don't identify themselves with the Jewish people. Zionism and Judaism are one and the same, all practising Jews at heart are Zionist; even those vociferously opposed to the state at present (like NK) would opt for a Jewish state the second the Moshiach comes. Antisemites throughout the ages have focused on a part of Judaism they detest, the latest manifestation of this hatred is the opposition to a Jewish presence in our ancestral homeland.

You speak as if antisemitism didn't exist pre-48, antisemitism has existed in Europe ever since the Jews arrived there. Stop trying to attribute modern justifcations to an ancient hatred.

What about Europe now? Maybe finally they have learnt something -to live together "leaving behind all dirrerences" which have only created hate...their political,religious,racial...attitudes - There is a saying:"Sour, said the fox of the berries of the mountain ash" - when could not reach them.

There are mean people everywhere, but right now our Jews seem to be quite happy here. So, I don't think it is as bad as you think it is. At least we have several active movements that fight antisemitism, islamophobia, and other kinds of racism. We can feel the difference. The atmosphere in my country has improved the last five years.

Indonesia has the worlds largest Islamic population. Indonesia has, through its colonialist endevours, killed hundreds of thousands of people in the last 60 years (New Paupa, East Timor, commie purges, etc.) If we were to employ your logic, we could justify attacks against both Indonesians and Muslim anywhere on the globe by pointing to Indonesia and howling loudly. Would it make sense to you if folks started doing that?

All those things you mention with a preface of "how about reporting ...." have been covered extensively in this and other Israeli papers. Crazy racist inspired crimes in Europe is of particular interest because Europe nearly tore itself apart half a century ago by crazy racist Nazis. To see racist rumblings amongst its populations now is a reminder of the vigilance that is required to keep that nonsense at bay. It takes effort to incorporate diverse populations into a coherent peaceful society. One would think that the Europeans would be keenly aware of that due to their history.

If Indrajaya was right that would mean the jewish people gave the non-jewish a legitimate reason to be hostile. That was never true. Antisemitism, and all other forms of racism are a psychological problem of the hating individual, and has nothing to do with the victim. People who need to hate would even hate their own mother. Please stop blaming the jewish people. This does not mean I am happy with the way the Palestinians are treated by the IDF. I'm not sure that what is happening in Israel is the most clever way to deal with the problems of the Jewish people. But I once more repeat that the most brilliant statement Olmert ever made was that there are no easy solutions.

... in an Israeli newspaper, but I think the US should mind it's own business. They are not in a position to lecture others. We know we have a huge problem with racism, antisemitism, islamophobia, etc... and we deal with it. We make good progress, and we will continue to fight it.

"...How dare you justify attacks on innocent people thousands away..." Try to calm yourself, read again my comment. I didn't justify a THING. I was just commenting about possible correlation between the outcome of the HUMAN RIGHT report with something else. Whether the rise of anti-semitism was justified or not, that's another MATTER.

Unfortunately the history of Europe is the history of war, hate and death. Every war in history can be traced back to European expansionism, greed and exploitation. Now Europeans have 'reinvented' themselves as some kind of moral superpower, but the reality of their citizenry is different.

But what the heck does "criticizing Israel" have to do with hate crimes? You're taking place in a forum about attacks on innocent people (not just Jews but others around the world per the article) to launch into a diatribe about Israel, complete with the usual propaganda about how criticism of Israel isn't antisemitic. Well, sometimes it is and and sometimes it isn't. There are a number of opinions about the Jewish group in Britain that you cite. Their opinions don't square with the majority, either in Britain or in the US. But that's beside the point. The point is this article is about the beating of Jews, the desecration of their property, the intimidation of people on the street. It's about hate crimes, not about your precious "antizionism isn't antisemitism" meme. Are you suggesting that the statistics are false? Why? Because you don't like the messenger perhaps? That's a lame excuse to ignore an increasingly frightening reality.

..Israeli occupation policy is being ant--Semitic. In the UK, the Jewish British Board of Deputies (BBD) and BICOM have been mounting a major PR campaign with intense lobbying of Government officials to persuade them that anyone who criticises Israeli occupation policy is antisemitic. So fed up of this twisted and truth-bending black propaganda were many UK Jews that they formed their own group to show UK citizens that not all Jews were willing to kowtow to the three-line whip of the BBD, called Independent jewish Voice. Do not be taken in by the claims of this US group. Calling the Knesset and the IDF and violent settlers to account is NOT and NEVER CAN BE claimed as being antisemitic, and increasing members of the British and European public refuse to be cowed into silence by this threat of being labelled antisemitic. The Knesset is guilty of being racist, as evidenced by the UN CERD Committee of March 2007.

How dare you justify attacks on innocent people thousands away, because people might not like what they read in al Jazeera! For all you know it might not even be true. And let me put it this way: Arabs murder Jews in Israel. Does this give me the right to harm my Arab neighbor in America? Jews are accused of drinking Christian blood too - there are movies about that in the Middle East and thousands and thousands of Jews suffered for such libels in Europe and there was a pogrom in Damascus in the 19th century, based on such a lie. Attacks on Israel are justified by people who think Nazi propaganda is fact. Blaming Israel - a nation at war - for attacks on Jews thousands of miles away is just flat wrong. And it seeks to exonerate hate criminals. Why would you try to give people like that a free pass?

Did HRF make a note of the recent hate crime that was perpetrated in Tel-Aviv whereby a Jewish French immigrant sought out an Arab taxi driver and slaughtered him JUST FOR BEING ARAB? Or have they heard about the soldier Natan Zadeh who murdered four Arab bus riders in Shafa Amr just because they were Arabs? There has been a long list of racially motivated attacks by Jews against Arabs (Haaretz reported on many of them) and these attacks happen in public and the attackers usually get off with a slap on the hand. All hate crimes are reprehensible, but focusing on some and ignoring others is in itself a form of racial discrimination!

what of the favourite past-times of Israeli newspapers. how about reporting hate crimes commited by israli jews against israeli arabs? how about reporting hate crimes commited by israeli soldiers against palestinian civilians (confirming the killing of little children)? how about reporting crimes against humanity (landmines, cluster bombs) in lebanon? Europe has as many problems with hate crimes as any other continent, no more no less. Always bashing Europe only serves to disgust Europeans and diminish their support for Israel.

Indrajaya is right: you can't separate anti-Semitism among Muslims from Israeli repression of the native population of Palestine! Don't get me wrong: anti-Semitism, like all forms of ethnic bigotry is despicable! But these stats on anti-Semitic acts lack perspective: where are the figures on the US? What about all those Black areas in US cities where a person with a yamulka would not dare enter? There are even anti-Semitic acts carried out in Israel by both Muslims and Russian "Jews". Maybe if you stopped your illegal and immoral settlements of the West Bank and Golan, instead of massacring the native population, people would not resent Israel and its amen corner in the US?

As always the hasbara hacks forget the Internet, which allows us to establish within seconds that this is a mere Potemkin Village or Astroturf ' Group'.

Is there any positive correlation between the rise of antisemitism in Europe with Israel brutal occupation on the territory? (Al JAZEERA, 06/06/07, a family (father, mother, a child) been massacred by IDF in Hebron) Hardly possible to avoid that conclusion.

First, people think that the bombing was committed because Muslims hate Israel, and therefore they resent any support Israel might get. Second, there is an unholy alliance between the far left and the Islamists, in particular Hamas and Hezbollah, that some of the Marxists consider as liberation organizations. Third, antisemitism is always present and under conditions of crisis, it flares up. To summarize, people hate Jews, and they need no reason to do so.

Why a rise in antisemetic crimes after the bombing in england? Do the english not know it was done by paki-muslims and not jews?

The question has been answered, According to article Israel represents all Jews of all nations. Europe does not need reason to attack its Jewish population

Thanks for setting the record strait on who is the majority. If you believe the media you guys are being over runned,but I must admit you are the toothless bulldog soon Sharia law will be the norm.Even if they are the minority! A toothless lot especially when your boys got snagged by Iran! That was swept under the rug! Blame all the ills of the world on US! We are use to it!

We have to get those Muhammits and non-whites out of England before its too late!

Nice of you to let us know that our 'large Muslim populations' are the 'problem,' whatever 'problem' might mean. Doubtless living so near gives you a perspective I can't find: wood for the trees and that. Our 'large Muslim populations' arrived in the 1960s, whereupon they suffered a couple of decades of 'Paki bashing' be they Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Indian, Tamil, Bangladeshi or actually Pakistani. 40 yrs odd later, they remain at the bottom of the pile, socially & economically. The 'problem' then is brainless bigotted shite that comes from all colours & creeds. Being that white, native born Britains still constitute 90% of the population, we give most of it out & receive the least. Exactly why the popularity of certain names should make a shit of difference, I've no idea. Unless you just don't like Muslims. But then that'd make you some sort of bigot, wouldn't it? Shit, I'm stuck: maybe time for some of your perspective, no? Carl.

Its so sad that racism is growing in countries that fought the Germans, The Russians lost millions in the fighting and suffered untold deprivations. Now its youth is joining rightwing aggressive groups against pple of different colour, embracing Nazi ideology. The government does nothing. Ukraine is no surprise, its had a bloody history of pogroms and cruelties that are legendary. As for britain and France, large Muslim populations are the problem, in Britain alone 6000 babies were named Mahomet this year, second only to Jack. What can the future hold there? I let you guess